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CREATIVE BRIEF TITLE: Create static fan art for the DC FanDome event!
The Incentives:
Sponsor (defined below) and DC, invite visual creators from around the world to create
artwork inspired by the DC Universe. All submissions must comply with the Submission
Requirements set forth in that section below.
Five (5) selected submissions, subject to verification, as chosen by DC will each receive
$2,000 USD and the opportunity to be featured (i) in marketing campaigns for DC Universe,
and (ii) across the DC Universe digital and marketing channels, in all media now known or
hereafter devised including without limitation, internet, social media, television, printed
materials, outdoor billboards, murals and merchandise, such as t-shirts and posters.
Use: All entrants, whether the winning creators (“Selected Creators”) or not, hereby
acknowledge and agree that DC Universe intellectual property, and all intellectual property
rights embodied therein, and all derivative rights thereof including the embodiment of the
DC Universe (collectively, “DC Universe IP”) is the sole and exclusive property of DC and all
entrants, whether Selected Creators or not, shall not obtain any right or interest of any
kind whatsoever in DC Universe IP. An entrant’s rights to use the DC Universe IP is strictly
limited to entering this Creative Brief in accordance with these Official Rules. All creators,
whether Selected Creators or not, retain ownership only in the original portions of their
Work (defined in Section 2 below) that do not contain or are not derivative of DC Universe
IP. There is no assignment of any of your intellectual property rights in your Work to DC.
However, by submitting your Work, you hereby grant to DC, its parent, affiliates and
subsidiaries and each of their respective licensees and assigns, a worldwide, non-
exclusive, royalty-free license for three (3) years from the date the Work is first displayed
on Talenthouse’s website for the purpose of using your submitted Work across their
various marketing platforms in association with the DC Universe. All Selected Creators
may be credited accordingly as determined by DC in its sole discretion. All non-Selected
Creators may be credited accordingly. Any ownership by an entrant in the submitted Work
is subject to and restricted by DCs’ underlying rights in the DC Universe IP. All entrants,
whether Selected Creators or not, shall be
allowed to only make personal use (e.g., personal portfolio purposes) of the submissions,
unless such entrant has first received the prior express written consent from DC allowing
such other use. In no event, may an entrant obtain a fee, royalty, advertising revenue, or
any other payment in exchange for the submission, other than those Selected Creators
who receive an incentive from Sponsor.
In exchange for the incentives set forth above, the Selected Creators grant DC, its parent,
affiliates, subsidiaries, and each of their respective licensees and assigns, a worldwide,
exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license from the date the Work is displayed on
Talenthouse’s website for the purposes of entering this Creative Brief to use their
submitted Work across their various marketing platforms for the promotion of DC
Universe, in all media now known or hereafter devised including without limitation,
internet, social media, television, printed materials, outdoor billboards, murals and
merchandise, such as t-shirts and posters.
All submissions to this Creative Invite have the potential to be displayed in a Fan Gallery
within the DC FanDome virtual event, outside of this Talenthouse Competition.
Key Dates
Launch: June 16, 2020 at 6:00 AM
Submissions must be received by July 31, 2020 at 10:00 AM.
Fan Voting on Finalist Entries: August 22, 2020 during the
DC FanDome event
Selected Creators Announced: September 4, 2020
Notice:
Talenthouse respects your rights and does not claim copyright related to Works you
submit. You retain full copyright in your submissions to the extent copyrightable under the
applicable law and subject to DC’s rights to DC Universe IP incorporated therein. In
addition, your moral rights are respected. Whenever your Work is published by
Talenthouse, you may be credited. Failure to provide accurate credit by Talenthouse shall
be considered an error or oversight and shall not constitute a breach of these rules or an
infringement of your copyright or create any liability for any Released Parties.
By participating in this Creative Brief you also grant Talenthouse a limited license to use
any Work you submit for display on Talenthouse’s media channels, in connection with this
Creative Brief, including but not limited to all promotional purposes related to this
Creative Brief.
The submission period for the Creative Brief is described on the Creative Brief site (the
“Creative Brief”) and shall begin and end on the dates and times set forth above and/or on
each Creative Brief Site (the "Submission Period"). The Creative Brief is governed by these
Official Rules. Void where prohibited by law.
1. Eligibility.
The Creative Brief is open to those who are at least 18 years of age and the age of majority
in their jurisdiction of primary residence at the time of submission. You are not eligible to
participate in this Creative Brief if you are a national or legal resident of Brazil due to
competition and prizing restrictions in Brazil. You are also not eligible to participate in the
Creative Brief if you are a national or legal resident of any country in which the United
States has embargoed goods (including, without limitation, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North
Korea, Sudan, or Syria.) Full eligibility details are included in the Official Rules (linked
below). Void where prohibited by law. It is the obligation of all creators to ensure that
participating in this Creative Brief and, as applicable, receipt of any incentive,
complies with all laws, rules and regulations of the jurisdiction of which such
creator is a legal resident/national. Proof of residency and age may be required.
Employees, officers, members, directors, officers, managers, agents, and representatives of
DC, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., the Sponsor, and each of their respective corporate
partners, parent companies, subsidiaries, divisions, affiliates, assigns, successors in
interest, advertising or promotional agencies or partners, and any other party
participating in the development, design, administration, or fulfillment of this Creative
Brief (collectively, the “Creative Brief Entities“) and the immediate family and household
members of such individuals, are not eligible to enter or be chosen as a Selected Creator.
"Immediate family members" shall mean parents, step-parents, children, step-children,
siblings, step-siblings, legal guardian, legal ward, spouses or domestic partners, regardless
of where they live. "Household members" shall mean people who share the same
residence at least three months a year, whether related or not. In order to participate in
the Creative Brief creator must fully comply with these Official Rules, the Terms and
Conditions and Privacy Policy and, by entering the Creative Brief, creator represents and
warrants that creator agrees to be bound by these Official Rules, the Terms and Conditions
and Privacy Policy, and the decisions of Sponsor and DC – and DC-designated judges,
whose decisions shall be binding and final in all respects relating to this Creative Brief. If
there is any conflict between these Official Rules and the Terms and Conditions and
Privacy Policy, these Official Rules shall control.
(a) The Work must be creator’s own original work, created solely by creator (not copied,
cut and pasted from elsewhere, for example) or content that incorporates materials from
the public domain; must not have been previously published, released or distributed in
any form; must not have won any award; and must not infringe or violate the copyright,
trademark, privacy, publicity, or other personal or proprietary rights of any person or
entity. All third party content and content unoriginal to you is prohibited, (i) unless, as
determined by DC in its sole discretion, is a non-infringing use of third-party content that
is incidental, in the background, and/or not the focal point of any Work and/or (ii) except
that you may include DC Universe IP, including DC names, trademarks, logos or other
property associated with the DC Universe, as well as depict or reference talent and
filmmakers (collectively, “DC Universe Content”). You may not include any licensed stock
images of any sort in your submission. DC Universe Content is allowed solely for use by
you for entry into this Creative Brief and may only be used in a positive and non-
disparaging manner. You may submit Work previously submitted to other Creative Briefs
on Talenthouse, so long as you own the rights, other than the DC properties/characters
depicted and your submission have not been entered into any other contest.
(b) Except as set forth on the Creative Brief Site, the Work must not contain or
reference any names, products or services of any company or entity or any third party
trademarks, logos, trade dress or promotion of any brand, product or service.
(c) If any persons appear or are referred to in the Work with the exception of talent
included in DC Universe Content, creator is solely responsible for obtaining, prior to
submitting creator’s Work, any and all releases and consents necessary to permit the
exhibition and use of the Work by Sponsor and DC. If any person appearing in any Work is
under the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence, the signature of a parent or
legal guardian is required on each release.
Creator agrees to provide Sponsor with written confirmation of those permissions and
rights upon request.
(d) Any Work that is lewd, obscene, sexually explicit, pornographic, disparaging, libelous,
false, fraudulent, deceptive, misleading, defamatory, threatening, trade libelous,
slanderous, unlawfully harassing, profane, hateful, indecent, blasphemous, or injurious or
any Work that otherwise contains inappropriate content or objectionable material may
not be submitted and may be removed at any time in Sponsor's sole and unfettered
discretion.
(e) The Work must not contain any personally identifiable information of any person
other than creator. Should creator include personally identifiable information about
creator in the Work, creator acknowledges and agrees that such information will be
disclosed publicly and creator is solely responsible for any consequences thereof.
Creator may not be (nor may creator work with parties in conjunction with the Work who
are):
1) represented under contract (e.g., by a talent agent or manager) that would limit or
impair DC’s and/or Sponsor’s ability to display creator’s Work in any media form; 2)
subject to an acting or modeling contract that would make creator’s/their appearance in
the Work a violation of any third-party rights; or 3) under any other contractual
relationship, including but not limited to guild and/or union memberships, that may
prevent DC and/or Sponsor from being able to use the Work as contemplated by this
Creative Brief. Further, each creator agrees that his/her participation in this Creative
Brief and agreement to these Official Rules and any Creative Brief Entity’s display
and use of the Work will not violate any agreement to which creator or creator’s
employer is a signatory or party.
(f) The Work must: (i) not contain or describe any harmful or illegal activity or content
or in any way violate any federal/national, state, provincial, territorial or local laws, rules
or regulations; (ii) be suitable for presentation in a public forum; and (iii) not suggest,
depict, or describe any inappropriate, unlawful, violent, sexually explicit, racist,
pornographic, sexist, political, discriminating, religious, violent, offensive or dangerous
behavior or use of Sponsor’s or DC products.
Sponsor reserves the right in its sole and unfettered discretion to disqualify any Work that
it believes violates or potentially violates any of the foregoing requirements or otherwise
fails to comply with any provision of these Official Rules, the Terms and Conditions or
Privacy Policy. The decisions of Sponsor on this and all matters pertaining to the Creative
Brief shall be final and binding.
3. Incentives:
Incentives for the Selected Creator are described above and/or on the Creative Brief Site.
No transfer, refund, cash redemption, substitution, cash equivalent or replacement of any
incentive by any Selected Creator is permitted, except that Sponsor reserves the right, in
its sole discretion, to substitute an incentive of equal or greater value (or cash equivalent)
for any reason. In the event the approximate retail value (“ARV”) of an incentive is
different from the actual retail value of that incentive, the difference will not be awarded
in cash. Applicable federal, national, state, territorial, and local taxes, as well as any other
expenses not specified in these Official Rules as being awarded as part of the incentive, are
the sole responsibility of the Selected Creators, as applicable. Any portion of the incentive
not accepted or unclaimed and/or unused by any Selected Creator will be forfeited and
will not be substituted. In no event will more than the stated number of incentives be
awarded. Incentives, if legitimately claimed, will be awarded. Incentive details not
specifically stated in these Official Rules will be determined in Sponsor’s sole discretion.
Sponsor is not responsible for and will not replace any lost, mutilated or stolen incentive
or any incentive that is undeliverable or does not reach a Selected Creator because of
incorrect or changed contact information.
4. Selection of Creators.
On or about the “Selection/Voting Date” set forth above and/or on the Creative Brief Site,
the finalist creators will be selected by DC and DC designated judges ‘the Judges’ from
among all eligible submissions received on the basis of: (i) substance (33%); (ii) creativity
(34%); and (iii) originality (33%).
Based on the above criteria the Judges’ will select twenty-seven (27) qualified submissions
to be featured within the DC FanDome site. During the virtual event on August 22, 2020
fans from around the world will vote on the submission they think is the most creative to
help ‘the Judges’ choose five (5) Selected Creators from among the twenty-seven (27)
finalists. Fans will cast a public vote based on creativity and following the DC FanDome
event, ‘the Judges’ will review the finalist creators again taking the public votes into
account. Five (5) eligible multimedia Creators will be chosen as ‘the Selected Creators’ to
receive the incentives as further described above. Decisions of judges are final and cannot
be appealed. A qualified submission is one which meets all the Terms & Conditions,
guidelines located within the Creative Brief and Official Rules. In the event of a tie, the
entry with the higher score in the Creativity category will be the winner.
Creators are prohibited from offering inducement in connection with votes or obtaining
votes by any fraudulent or inappropriate means, as determined by the Sponsor in its sole
discretion, including, without limitation, by offering prizes or other incentives or
inducements in exchange for votes or by manipulating browser settings or using multiple
browsers/devices in order to submit votes in excess of the above-stated limit (or
encouraging others to do any of the above). Use of these techniques, or any script, macro,
or other automated or artificial system to vote, or acting in any manner with the intent or
effect of impairing the integrity of the voting process, is prohibited. All votes that are (or
are suspected to be) the product of such prohibited actions will, upon discovery by the
Sponsor, be deemed null and void and may lead to the disqualification of the applicable
entrant. Sponsor reserves the right to restrict or void votes from any device, account, IP
address, or other identifiable source or for any entrant if any vote is determined or
suspected to be fraudulent or otherwise in violation of these Official Rules, as determined
by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Without limiting any other provision of these Official
Rules, if the voting process is incapable of operating as planned for any reason (including,
without limitation, Sponsor’s determination or suspicion of voting fraud or any other
action that Sponsor determines has impaired or undermined the administration, security,
fairness, or proper conduct of the voting process), Sponsor reserves the right to proceed
without reference to the public vote.
6. Notification.
During the Selection Period set forth above and/or on the Creative Brief Site, the potential
Selected Creator will be notified by mail, phone and/or e-mail, at Sponsor's discretion,
using the information provided by the potential Selected Creator. The Sponsor shall have
no liability for any notification that is lost, intercepted or not received by potential
Selected Creators for any reason. In Sponsor's sole discretion, the potential Selected
Creators may be disqualified and required to forfeit the incentive, and an alternate
potential Selected Creator may be selected in accordance with these Official Rules from
among the remaining eligible submissions if the selected potential Selected Creator: (i)
cannot be reached for whatever reason after a reasonable effort has been exerted based
on the information provided by the potential Selected Creator or notification is returned
as undeliverable; (ii) declines or cannot accept, receive or use the incentive for any reason;
(iii) is found to be ineligible to enter the Creative Brief or receive the incentive; or (iv)
cannot or does not comply with these Official Rules, the Terms and Conditions or Privacy
Policy. Sponsor is not obligated to leave voice mail, answering machine, or other message.
As a condition of entering this Creative Brief, the potential Selected Creators agree to
complete, sign, have notarized (where applicable and if requested), and return (as
directed by DC and Sponsor) an Affidavit/Declaration of Eligibility, Release of Liability,
Publicity Release, License Agreement and Awardee Agreement (where permitted by
law)(collectively, the “Declaration"), tax forms , and Creative Asset Data Sheet identifying
the source of each creative element included in your submission (font, your original
artwork and assets, by the date specified in the notification or, in Sponsor's sole discretion,
incentive may be forfeited and an alternate Selected Creator may be selected in
accordance with these Official Rules from among the remaining eligible submissions. The
Declaration is subject to verification by Sponsor. Sponsor reserves the right to modify the
notification and Declaration procedures in connection with the selection of the Selected
Creators. Upon incentive forfeiture, no compensation will be given and Sponsor will have
no responsibility or liability to that creator. To claim an incentive, each Selected Creator
must follow the directions in his or her notification.
By participating in the Creative Brief, creators will be sharing their personal information with
Sponsor. Personal information collected by Sponsor will be used for administration of the
Creative Brief and awarding the incentive and as set forth in the Talenthouse Privacy
Policy. In addition, personal information associated with Selected Creators will be shared
with DC and Warner Bros. for purposes of assisting such administration and analytics in
accordance with the Warner Bros. Privacy Policy.
8. License/Grant of Rights.
In addition to the grants of rights detailed above, by participating in the Creative Brief,
creators grant the Sponsor a limited, worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free,
unconditional license and absolute right to post, publish, store, copy, transmit, publicly
display, and exhibit, the Work (in whole or in part) on Talenthouse media channels in
connection with the Creative Brief. By participating in the Creative Brief, creators
acknowledge and agree that: (a) DC and each of their respective agents, creators, writers,
representatives or licensees may now have similar scripts, treatments, concepts, artwork
and/or ideas in development and/or may independently develop and use similar scripts,
treatments, concepts, artwork and/or ideas; (b) any similarity between any Work that
creators submit and/or any materials already in development or independently
developed hereafter by DC or any of their respective agents, creators, writers,
representatives or licensees shall be coincidental; and (c) creator shall have no rights
whatsoever in or to, nor shall creator make any claim against, any artwork, sketches,
designs, concepts or ideas already in development, or that may hereafter be
independently developed, by DC and each of their respective agents, creators, writers,
representatives or licensees notwithstanding any similarity to any materials (including
my Work) that creator has submitted hereunder. Creators understand that Work is not
being submitted in confidence or in trust to Sponsor or any Released Parties and that no
confidential or fiduciary relationship is intended or created.
12. Sponsor: TLNT Group, LLC, 150 East 69th Street, Suite 5F, New York, NY 10021
13. Selected Creator List. To obtain a copy of a Selected Creators list for this Creative
Brief, available after the Announcement date, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope
to Sponsor, with the specific Creative Brief Name, to Sponsor within three (3) months of
the Selection Date.